Comments by "Lelly Parker" (@lellyparker) on "US Ambassador wants NHS and chlorinated chicken included in UK trade deal" video.

Before Brexit "Take Back Control" . After Brexit "Give Control To America" .
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@BB-qp9ri The EU are not "foreign rulers", whoever conned you with that BS? We are MAJOR players in the EU and we COOPERATE with other rules over mutually beneficial laws to make trade and commerce CHEAP for small businesses and to make working conditions better for working people. The only reason the EU is so badly misrepresented is because RICH people want to carve up Britain and sell it to the US. When we come out of the EU we will lose a great deal of actual sovereignty to the US. We will have to follow their rules far more than we ever had to follow EU rules which WE OURSELVES helped to formulate.
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@jasonspringer2983 And secondly Britain VOTED to allow freedom of movement. It is OUR CHOICE. Further more WE NEED IT because we do not have a large enough working population to pay for our elderly retired citizens. We also do not have the skilled staff for key industries like the health service. WE NEED IMMIGRATION.
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@jasonspringer2983 "Unlike most other EU member states—and some countries outside the EU—the UK is not part of the Schengen passport-free area because it hasn’t signed the Schengen agreement. This means it can retain border controls." - https://fullfact.org/europe/border-security-eu/ Stop listening to Right Wing Fascist Brexit Propaganda.
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@jasonspringer2983 The main difference After Brexit is we will get immigrants from places like Pakistan and India and Africa rather than EU countries. If that's what you prefer. It is ECONOMICS that forced this on us NOT the EU.
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@rogerusa9696 Nigel Farage campaigned on the basis of a deal with the EU after Brexit. https://twitter.com/OFOCBrexit/status/1125912034414137347
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We won't have a choice if we leave the EU. That should be an obvious truth. We will be desperate for a trade deal or people will starve. Therefore we will have to give the US everything they ask for, bend over and say thank you for roggering us up the backside.
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@icarus877 The EU is a fantastic organisation that benefits the lives of all those who are part of it. This is why countries go through such pains to become a part of it. Being outside is worse. Much worse.
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@Tom-pe3se We can't do that. Our country needs the resources and trade deals that sending in the military secures for us. We don't send our Army to other countries out of the goodness of our hearts. We do it because we need the things those countries have to offer - like OIL, foreign business etc...
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@icarus877 The Right Wing propagandists really did do a number on you. It is true that debating with you is useless. You are far too brainwashed if you really believe the bs and nonsense you just posted.
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@icarus877 You have everything the exact opposite. The Brexit movement is very similar to the Fascist movement. They both predicate on blaming IMMIGRATION, and they both blame EUROPE for their problems. You are literally following a Fascist style campaign that has successfully convinced you of the opposite. Banks? The EU imposes strict regulation on Banks. Brexit? The people in the Brexit Part want to DEREGULATE Banks giving them a free hand to do what they want. Why do you think TORIES are in favor of Brexit? Because they represent BIG BUSINESS - like Banks who hate the EU because it prevents them from operating without accountability. If Brexit happens Britain will be FORCED to deregulate the Banks and to cut their taxes to prevent them from moving their money elsewhere. Let me show you with some quotes (do your own research too): *"US banks are calling on the British government to cut taxes and red tape that they say could lead to financial assets and jobs pouring out of the UK after Brexit. Senior Wall Street executives have warned UK government ministers that the City of London is losing its competitive edge against New York, especially since US president Donald Trump slashed corporation tax and pushed for looser regulations. One top US bank executive said after meeting UK chancellor Philip Hammond this month: “I think they know there is a ticket to pay to keep [London] as a financial centre.” Stephen Jones, chief executive of UK Finance, a lobby group for British lenders, said: “Competitiveness is a big agenda, and the tax cuts and deregulation in the US have put this firmly on the radar. “There is a perception that [in the UK] this is still a relatively hostile business and regulatory environment.”"* https://www.ft.com/content/3a2a5598-8d9a-11e8-b639-7680cedcc421 Also: *"UK is willing to ‘change its economic model’ if the EU doesn’t play ball in the negotiations. As more banks indicate that they may start to shift operations abroad, it is possible that the government may choose to slash financial regulation in a bid to curry favour with the City of London. Matters could be made worse if the government signs a hastily negotiated trade deal with the US. Trade deals aim to level out regulatory standards between two countries, and in theory this could mean that both countries choose to raise their standards to make them equal. But with Donald Trump in the White House, it’s fair to assume that the direction of regulatory standards will likely be downwards."* https://neweconomics.org/2017/04/brexit-banks-stands-gain After leaving the EU BIG BUSINESS is expecting large scale deregulation and big tax cuts. Its the main reason they want out. It is why the Brexit campaign is pumping out so much PROPAGANDA pretending to be the exact opposite of what it really is. In the EU we have democracy. For goodness sake we just have the EUROPEAN ELECTIONS. How can you still believe that the EU is not democratic? We the people get to choose HOW the EU is run.
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@icarus877 The European Parliament is ELECTED by US. That makes the EU democratic. The other body in the EU is the European Commission made up of national representatives from every member nation. THEY are chosen by the European Parliament so even the European Commission is now a DEMOCRATIC body. To say the EU is not democratic is blatantly wrong and provably so. The EU is has the biggest programme of environmental legislation in the world. The EU created the world's biggest single market. The EU won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2012. The EU is the world leader in Human Rights, something Brexiteers want to get rid of. Who in their right mind wants to get rid of Human Rights? The EU forces BUSINESS to treat workers better and gives them rights - like anti-discrimination. If you want to talk about racism and racial discrimination look no farther than the Brexit Party and Brexiteers in general. They hate immigration and they hate cooperating wit foreign countries.
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@icarus877 EU law is openly available for all to read and inspect, you don't need any qualification other than to be able to READ. The members of the European Commission are chosen by the sovereign states and vetted by the European Parliament which is an ELECTED body. That makes the EC appointments democratic. If the European Parliament don't like them, they don't get in. It is THAT simple.
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@icarus877 Farage is on video all over the internet contradicting himself. Saying one thing here and the exact oposite there. All Farage does is tell people what they want to hear when they want to hear it. He uses POPULIST tactics like picking on immigrants and blaming the EU for everything. It is TORY government that put Britain in the state it was before the referendum, NOT the EU. It is the same playbook the right wing fascists movements have used time and time again. Blame immigrants, Nationalism, xenophobia, flag waving and using peoples anger and frustrations to lead them into poor decision making. We have seen this time and time again all over the world. The EU is constantly changing and it was definitely worse in the past but it is also definitely reformable because it has been under a process of reform since its inception. The REAL problem with the EU is that nobody is encouraged to engage in its politics. If VOTERS were encouraged to take an interest in the EU then those things you mention would get fixed. We WOULD vote for candidates that have SPECIFIC ideas about how the EU should be different. And THAT would pressure the government to propose the relevant changes at the Commission level. It would even change the way we vote in UK General elections which would force UK Governments to push for this or that in the EU. But the British Government have all but hidden the EU process from us, clearly they have not encouraged the people to engage in Europe. But they should and that is what would make all the difference. Siding with the US is the WORST mistake we can make. That will be a disaster far worse than any problems with the EU. The EU is a LARGE net benefit to us. It always has been. But a deal with the US will be a very bad indeed.
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